IC 2065
IC 2065
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
201 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 201 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2065 as it looked roughly 201 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 2073Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1567Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 1680Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1926Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 1803Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1595Elliptical34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1567Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 1680Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1926Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 1803Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1595Elliptical34 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).